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Support Democratic Nominees.
Iu entering upon Ibis the most im
portant political campaign wc have
ever had in this Stale every Democrat
should regard the success of the Dem
ocratic part}' paramount to every oth
er consideration. Of course every
one will have his preference as to who
ehall be our standard-bearer, but in
.urging the claims of certain men for
ofllce there is no necessity for abusing
^others whose claims may be urged just
as honestly by other good Democrats.
It is not right for any Democrat to
insist upon the nomination of his par
ticular choice for any ofilec and refuse
to support any other who may be
nominated. Our zeal for one eandi
date should not cause us to detract
from, tho merits of others. Let all
nominations be made fairly and
squarely by a majority of the people,
and when fairly nominated let the
whole people rally to the support of
the nominees. Any one who insists
upon the nomination of his particular
favorite and threatens to "kick out of
the traces" unless his particular fa
vorite is nominated, is not a true
Democrat at heart, but a disorganizes
Such a person is a traitor in disguise
and should not be trusted. Such a
course leads to independent candi
dates, and all independents in a crisis
like this should be treated as Radi
cals, for they arc in reality no better
than Radicals if from any cause they
oppose or countenance any opposition
to the regular nominees of the Demo
cratic party. It is more important
to the welfare of the Stale that the
regular Democratic nominees should
be elected, even though some of them
may not be shining lights of the party,
than that any independents should
be elected, no matter how superior
may he their talents.?Spartanburg
Herald.
A Man His Own Grandfather.
The New York Truth says a man
was recently sentenced to ten years
imprisonment for having two children
by his daughter. His relationship to
those children and their mother will
probably not interest him much the
next ten years, but the Uera'd might
vary its monotonous block puzzle in
vestigation by a minute inquiry into
this relationship. For instance, he
is the father of the children, but be
ing also their mother's father, he is
their grandfather ; and as their father
is their grandfather, it follows that
their mother is their grandmother,
who is consequently the mother of
either their father or mother, and
hence must be her father's mother if
she is not her own. As it is impossi
ble for a woman to be her own moth
er, it follows that she is the mother
of her father, who being her son is
her father's grandson, and he being
her father he thus becomes his own
grandfather. But as lie is the grand
father of his daughter's children, and
also his own grandfather, they arc
his great-great grand-children. To
be the great-great grandfather of his
own children, the son of his daughter,
and his own grandson is a distinction
for which ten 3-ears in the penitentia
ry is a cheap purchase.
The Indians.
"Bright Eyes," the Ponca Indian
maiden who has been traveling
through the East in the interest of her
persecuted peoplo, is singularly terse
and forcible 111 her statements con
cerning the Indian question. In a
letter to Joseph Cook, which he rend
during his closing Monday lecture at
Boston, on the 15th inst., she says:
"The fatal mistake of the government
has L'on in taking care of the Indian
and feeding him like a child, instead
of making him take care of himself,
like a man. The more you help a
man the more you degrade him ; the
more you make a man help himself,
the more you elevate him. Experi
ence is the best of teachers, and I
might say the best of civilizcrs. The
Indian has been denied the lesson of
experience. When the government
accepts the teaching of history that
self-help is the only ngmey that ele
vates man, and given the Indian
rights accorded to every other race>
the Indian problem will be solved."
Av article upon the human figure
says that *?the proportions of the fig
ure are six times the length of the
feet." Coming generations, when
they shall excavate a Chicago young
lady's shoe, will remark incontinent
ly ; f'Tbero wore giants in those
days," and mentally reconstruct a
race of women ten feet tall.
I
A Dying Ism.
Female suffrage, the only "ism"
left to New England, appears for
some reason or another to he pretty
well abandoned even in that section.
The subject came up a few dn}'s ago
in two of the most advanced and
Puritanical of the New England
States, when its advocates received
such an overwhelming defeat that.it is
not very probibly they will renew the
assault in a very short time. In
Rhode Island it was proposed to
amend the State constitution so as to
allow women to vote on questions
affectiong the schools but it was
beaten two to one. In the Massa
chusetts House of Representatives a
general female suffrage bill was re
jected by a vote of one hundred and
thirty-seven to sixty. Nine years
ago in the same body the vote on a
similar proposition was a tic. This
looks rather blue for the so-called
friends of "progress; but, the real
reasons for the defeat of the measures
arc to be found in the fact that the
chief parties in interest?the women
themselves?have no desire to be ad
mitted to the inestimable privileges
of the ballot box. When they make
up their minds in Massachusetts or
any other Slate that they want to
vote, and demand it, it is safe to say
that the privileges will not be long
withhold from them.?N.Y. IIer?ld.
The Fish Law.
"There shall be a close lime in all
the ciceks streams and inland waters
of tins Slate from the sotting of the
sun Thursday unlil the rising of the
sun on Tuesday, during which time
all seines or nets or any plan or de
vice for the stoppage or collecting of
fish wbicii obstructs any portion of
any crock, stream or inland waters,
oilier than a dam for manufacturing
purposes, shall be removed from said
creek, streams or waters; and the
owner in whole or in part of any such
obstruction, plan or device dining
the period aforesaid shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof before any Court
of competent jurisdiction, shall be
fined in the sum of two hundred dol
lors, one-half of which shall go to the
informer and the other half to the
' County in which the case shall be
tried, or imprisoned for a period of
not less than three nor more than six
months, or both, at the discretion of
the Court trying the case."
Approved March 2'2, 1878.
Cure for Low Spirits.
Take one ounce of seeds of resolu
tion mixed with the oil of conscience ;
infuse it into a large spoonful of salts
of patience; distil very carefully a
composing plant called "other woes,"
which you will lind in every part of
the garden of life, growing under the
broad leaves of disguise, add a small
quantity, and it will greatly assist
the salt of patienc e in their operation.
Gallier a handful of tlio blossom of
hope, then sweeten them properly
with the balm of prudence ; and if you
can get any of the seed of true friend
ship, you will have the most valuable
medicine that can be administered,
lie crrcful to get the seeds of tine
friendship, as there is a seed very
much like it called self-interest, which
will spoil the whole composition.
Make the ingredicnls into pills and
take ono night and morning, and the
cure will be effected.
Too Long a Campaign.
We have been shown a letter from
Senator M. C. Butler to a citizen of
Chester in which he expresses grave
apprehensions as to the propriety of
the action of the State Executive
Committee in calling the State Con
vention to nominate a State ticket as
early as the lirst of June. Senator
Butler thinks that a campaign of live
months will give the sore heads, or
independent element, ample time to
work up an organized opposition lo
the regular ticket. Ihc people will
become wearied and lose enthusiasm
in so long a campaign. Besides these
disadvantages a long campaign will
he most disastrous to the agricultural
iulerosls of the State. The Senator
thinks that the campaign should not
bo longer than six weeks or two
months.? Chester Reporter,
TilK female country postmaster is
severally and individually rgitatcd.
A bill has been introduced in Con
gress to provide for postal cards with
llexiblo flaps that will conceal tho
messages written upon them.
A Strange Dream.
A young lady up North had a lover
whom she agreed to marry, but she
subsequently refused to do so. He
came South and died. Ilcr dream
she thus described : "She stood at
night upon an eminence overlooking
a rushing, icy stream. Dark clouds
obscured the moon, and the air was
damp and chilly. Soon she decried
in the semi-darkness a boat, with a
single occupant, floating with terrific
rapidity toward an immense cataract.
The man's face she could not see;
but he was gesticulating wildly, as if
imploring succor from the fale that
impended him. On, on went the boat;
faster and faster grew its speed;
wilder and more despairingly still
were the gestures of the unhappy
man ; until just as the frail bark was
about to go over the brink of the
awful cataract into the seething wa
ters below, the occupant turned, and
she recognized the face of her lover,
while a voice rang out from the
clouds: 'Another 6oul lost, lost?and
charged to you!'" The young lady
became crazy, shot her father and
then shot herself. This is true, and
of recent occurrence. The lady was
Miss llovcy, and the lover Eugene
Keanes, both of Lyons, N. Y. Was
there ever a stoiy more tragical.
Honesty vs. Policy,
During religious services in the jail
at Carson, Nevada, and after a cler
gyman had addressed the prisoners
on the text "Honesty the best poli
cy," a thief named Jones asked if he
could make a few remarks. Permis
sion being given, be said : "The ex
pression that 4honesty is the best,
policy* was first thrown o t on a
thieving world by Ben Franklin, an
old humbug. I don't agree with lien
Franklin that honesty should be a
policy dodge If a man is honest, he '
is honest anyhow ; and if be just sim
ply keeps correct from policy he is a
bad egg at heart, and only waiting to
get the confidence of the eorrmunity
and rob them out of thousands. A
man who is honest from policy would
not be if he had the nerve and the
chance. We fellows in here had too
much nerve, and we're loo candid to
conceal our real character."
A Question of Sex, Not Hat.
An usher in the North IJaplist
Church, in Christopher slrecl, caused
a sensation last Sunday evening. As
the pastor, the Rev. J. J. lirouner,
entered the pulpit, he was shocked by
a sudden outburst of mirth in the
choir gallery. Two young persons,
wearing ulsters and Derby bats, bad
been shown lo seats. The usher was
surprised when only one of them re
moved his hat. He waited some time
for the offending head covering to be
removed, and then reached over the
back of a pew and removed it himself.
Immediately he discovered, as did
many olher persons that the wearer
was a young lady and therefore enti
tled to wear a hat in church. Above
the noise of the organist's voluntary
rose that of the involuntnr}' mirth of
many of Use congregation.?Sun..
That Bank.
The United States Senate commit
tee which bus been investigating the
affairs of the Freedmen's bank has
completed its report, which is a
StraigtitforWurd recital of the shame
ful facts in this well-known case.
During the last four years 8335,994
bus been expended in winding up the
atfairs, of this bank, more than SnO,
DOO of it having been paid as salaries
lo the commissioners. ?70,000 to
agents, and 831,000 as attorneys'
lees. These expenses the committee
considers to have been unnecessarily
large?we should say so !?and re-1
commends placing the bank in the
hands of a single person, with such
power conferred upon him and such
restrictions as will lead to the ear
liest practicable settlement of the
business of the institution.
They are All Beautiful.
It is astonishing to note the num
ber of beautiful women who are mar
ried noW'ft-doys. The plain girls seem
Lo have taken 10 the woods, or have
been left in the background altogeth
er. Yet when the critical observer
goes on the street or in society, he
finds that there are many married la
lies who arc positively homely. As
some of these have been wedded with
in the last year or two, the question
arises whether or not tho fellow who
wrote up the weddings didn't Mulhat
lanizo a little.
The Outlook.
The indications nre that the negroes
in South Carolina will run a full tick
et against any ticket that may be put
in the field by the Democratic party
of the State. We notice from our
exchanges thnt the negroes In various
counties are showing signs of activity
in their opposition to the whites. In
Abbeville county a few of the dusky
political leaders,seem determined to
renew the race issue with all the force
the}' can bring to bear, but they re
ceive very little (sympathy from the
move sober and reflecting masses
whose uttentioirat present seems to
he directed mainly to agriculture and
the production of the great staple.
Any man or set of men who would
disturb them in their peaceful and
profitable pursuits deserves to be
whipped through the land with a cat
o'-nine-tails. The people of this
country have no idea of allowing the
negroes to take charge of our politi
cal affairs, and the sooner they and
their leaders understand this fact, the
better for all parties. Under no cir
cumstances arc wc going to dec*
corn-field negroes, or their dir y white
allies, to fill the public ollices of this
county, and wc hope that they may I
not attempt to disturb the peace and |
quiet of this county in an effort which
will be as fulile^as it will be disas
trous to the best interests of the pub
lic welfare. Ij no country in the
world is the white man governed by
the negro, and wc are sure a prece
dent will not be furnished by Abbe
ville county.?Press & Banner.
Opposition to a Third Term.
The growing opposition to a third
term is developing much strength
with the Republicans in nil sections
of the North, and Grant's pros
pects are correspondingly ? waning.
Sherman has expressed a willing
ness to accept the nomination if
Ohio goes for him with unanimity.
In fact he may be considered as real
ly on the anxious^ bench. Blainc is
still prominent, but it appears to us
that Washburnc has the inside track
with prospects of winning. The New
York Tribune, the King Radical pa
per of the North is strong against
Grant, and charges him with the dis
integration of the Republican party
in the South, and thinks lie would
smash the wdiole machine if he were
allowed to run it for another term.
The Now York Herald and th?. Sun
each express strong opposition to him
in nearly every issue of these papers.1
It now seems pretty certain that
Grant will be defeated.
The Campaign.
The State campaign is moving on
very quietly. The press seems to be
amusing itself in making nomina
tions. This is harmless pastime, and
will get up no sharp discussions. Wo
never saw the prc^s of the State in a
better humor on the eve of a cam j
pa gn. No now names nave been j
mentioned for the govcrnorsh p. Ila
good und Gary occupy the same posi I
lion in the race, which they did a
month ago. It is now generally be
lieved that the State o?lccrs will not
be nominated in June. All that the
Democrats need to insure success is
harmony and united voting from
Ooonec to Horry. This wc must have
no odds wint i' may cost individuals;
?Spartan.
Neck Dislocated.
Jim Duncan, who lives on tho Kil
kenny farm, three miles from Barn
well, fell from a wagon last week,
and dislocated his neck. Dr. Patter
son was sent for and found a protru
sion down the neCK, and the man suf
fering from something like paralysis
of the arms. By sudden pressure the
neck was reset, and the man thought
to be all right, though he has taken
up a notion that ho is going to die,
and has all the colored folk's on the
place singing hymns and praying lor
him.?Sentinel.
Who Owns the Manure.
The recent decision rcndeied by
Judge Hudson as to the righ'ful own
ership of manure accumulated on n
rented farm does not give satisfac
tion. The opinion prevails that it
will have the effect of impoverishing
rented lands in our Stale, for no ten
ant will go to the trouble of saving
and collecting manure, it' he is not to
be compensated for his trouble. The
decision that it belongs to the owner
of tho land will be carried to the Su
preme Court of the State for reversal.
?Kd'j'Jhid Advertiser.
Our Maimed Soldiers.
Columbia, April 1.?The follow
ing preamble and resolution were
adopted at the meeting of tho board
to contract for artificial limbs for
maimed confederate soldiers:
"Whereas, by its terms the money
to carry into effect the net to provide
artificial limbs fur soldiers of the
State, approved December 24, 1879,
cannot be paid out from the treasury
until all the other appropriations of
that session have been met by incom
ing taxes yet the board deem it prop
er nt once to fake the preliminary
steps necessary lo its execution.
"Resolved, That a circular be issu
led notifying pnrlics claiming to be
entitled to the benefit of the act to
send their names and post olllee ad-1
dress to the secretary at Columbia |
on or before July 1st, 1880, to the1
end that estimates may he made
by the commission and suitable j
blanks sent to applicants."
County treasurers will be furnished
with cop es of the circular, and they
are requested to post the same in
each township of the State at the
places of collection of taxes during
the month of May next.
Tbc address is signed by Gov.
Simpson, chairman, Gen. Hagood,
and Dr. Baruch, chairman of the
State Board of Health.
Will You Do It.
The Barnwe 1 People respcctfdly
' asks Mr. Charles II. Moise to rcpub
j lish his testimony before the Teller
Commiltee for the benefit of all for
getful Democrats, and then goes on
to say that "Mr. Moise is a self
nominated candidate for Comptroller
General at the next election ; he
j throws dirt at General Hagood with
out provocation?magnifies his own
'patriotism a d offers to take that po
j sition if a parsimonious people will
I give it to the lowest bidder. Cheap
servants are generally dear, and of
fice hunters are as a class as worth
less as strolling n*gan grinders or
; drunken spectacle peddlers. If Mr.
Moise will only tarry in appropriate
seclusion at Sumter for at ieast a
j half century some political convul
sion may give him that notoriety
j which he craves -but he can't, whit ?
I wash himself into distincion by his
present Cheap J hn taetics."
Announcement.
The editor of this paper announces
himself as a candidate for any office
'in the Slate or County, from Gover
! nor down to County Commissioner,
which is likely to become vacant for
want of an applicant. If our Repub
lican form of government should
prove a failure at last, it shall not be
jcharged to our refusal to servo our
country in an emergency such as we
have hinted nt. Indeed the fies of
potriotism are burning so strongly in
our bosom that wc believe the great
er the responsibility the more willing
we would be to makethc sacrifice.
Notices of such vacancy by postal
or otherwise will be promptly consid
ered.?Monitor.
The Hiil-Raymond Scandal.
The ease of Jessie Raymond came
up in the Circuit Court at Washing
ton last WvCk upon a motion by Sen
ator Hill's counsel that the case he
stricken from the docket, on the
ground that the suit was instituted
by the plaiuMil's attorney without the
plaintiff's consent and against her
protest. The court took the papers.
Later in the day Mrs. Lockwood ap
peered with Miss Raymond, and the
latter in open court swore to an affi
davit that she had authorized its
prosecution, und that her claim for
damages was a just and true one.
The court took the motion of Senator
Hill's counsel under advisement.
Akotiiek of those "trilling acci
dents" which make travel by the New
York elevated roads interesting, if
not secure, occurred on Monday,
when two trains collided at a down
town station and scattered their bro
ken iron and timber on the street,
bclo.v. As the only person injured
was a youth who was passing under
the tracks at the time, and had his
skull fractured by a stray p:eco of
iron, the railway company may still
boast of tho immunity which its
passengers enjoy from danger. Had
the youth in question taken the cars
instead of recklessly walking on the
sticets below he would have escaped
unhurt. The moral is very evident,
but rather rough on pedestriauo who
can't afford to ride.
A Singular Will.
The Rev. Mr. Parry, a clergyman
near Worehcster, Mass., recently
deceased, has left a will bequeathing
to his Christian friends hia unspeaka
ble and everlasting love, to his ene
mies his forgivness, and his books
to a parish er. H is sermons, letters
and manuscripts arc to be burned
unread; his death is not to be
announced in a newspaper ; his poorest
clothing is to be nailed up in a box
of unplancd boards ; at his funeral no
one is to look at his body; there
must be no flowers, no clergyman, no
strangers, no service except the
reading of two Psalms by "Deacon
Bow leer ;" he is to he taken in an ex
press wagon to a grave in any lot one
of his parishioners will s?ive him, but
there must be no head-stone or any
'sign to mark his place of burial, as
his, "Lord and God will need no re
minder of the place where his dust
reposes." His wife, from whom he
sometime before seperated, is,forbid
den attending his funeral. She bus
asked that the will be not admitted
to probate. m
John Sherman.
This gentleman has undertaken to
account for the opposition of the Chi
cago Tribune to his candidacy by
showing that it is because of his refusul
to allow Mr. Modill, the editor of the
Tribune, to bulldoze him into chang
ing Ids financial policy in the winter
of 1878. Mr. Medill proves from
Sherman's records and the files ol the
Tribune that at the very time named
the two were in entire accoril both op
posing the repeal of the resumption
and both favoring the remonetizalion
of silver, as one of them, the Tribune
does yet. This seems to dispose of
Sherman, but what could the Tribune
expect of the man who solcmly as
sured the country of the good charac
ter of the scoundrels in the Louisiana
Returning Board?
The Negro.
Of the social life of the Southern
negroes, the New Orleans Picayune
says: "There is not a more social
race under the heavens than negroes.
They have much more social enjoy
ment than the while people do. They
naturally elaborate social enjoyment
out of all kinds of gatherings?even
funerals, baptisms, and religious meet
ings, as well as balls, picnics, railroad
excursions, parlies, politics, etc.
They do not desire to mingle socially
with Ihe white people. They are as
par'.ial to their color as crows and
blackbirds are. They don't even
want white preachers to preach to
them?even a Radical preacher, only
in exceptional cases."
J. H. Runkle.
No doubt many of our readers re
member one J. Ii. Runkle, one of the
great lights of radicalism when that
I patty held high carnival in th:s Stale.
He was elected Solicitor in the Fifth
Circuit and lived in Columbia, where
he committed suicide in 1877 by
shooting lrmsclf. Not long since n
person visited 'his town soliciting
subscribers to a book purporting lo
give the lives and villianous acts of a
number of Western desperadoes, and
among the list of its hctocs is the
name of ''J. H. Runkle, who killed
himself in Columbia, S. C, in i?77."
And of such was the Radical p:*rty
composed in South Carolina.? Union
Times.
A 8old Move.
The Town Council of Barnvrell,
sa)s the Yeoman, tired of writing for
legislative enactments on the subject,
have taken the bull by the horns,
carried the war into Africa, and
bearded the lion in his den, by pass
ing an ordinance prohibiting the car*
rying of couccnhnl deadly weapons
within the corporate liyiits of that
town. Now if Kdgclield will follow
suit, peace would reign in Warsaw,
and the millennium might he hoped for
at no distant day. Truly the wothlj
move, and this time, in the right di
rection.
Tun Republican parly which makes
the brazen claim that it monopolizes
all the honesty, patriotism and piety
in the country, is confronted again
by the wreck of tho Freed men's
Bank. After sie -ding nearly nil the
money of the "poor black man," the
benevolent Republicans who under
took to "setlle" the affairs of the con
cern have scooped about $400,000 in
salaries and "incidental expenses."?
Sav. News.
Desecrating the Temple.
?*J. B." in the Associate Jtejormed
Presbyterian of last week, among oth
er tilings comments on the vulgar
practice of chewing tobacco in chinch.
Wo regard it as positively impolite
to chew and spit tobacco on the floor,
of any building in the presence of la
dies, and a hundred fold more so,
when In a house dedicated for relig
ious worship. "J. 13." says:
The floor of the church bespattered
with tobacco juice, very much to the
inconvenience and displeasure of the
ladies whose dresses are soiled thcrer
with. To our tobacco chewing friends
we would say, have you no heurths
nor floors ut home upon which you
can discharge the superabundant sali
va, is there no open space out in your
yards, or on the highway, or in the
open field, where you can relieve youi
selves of the constantly accumulating
liquid that yon must serve the carpets
and floor of the Sanctuary in this
way ? If it were put to a vote whether
gentlemen should be indulged witli
the privilege of chewing tobacco in
the church and discharging the liquid
of their mouths on the floor where
they sit, the negative would prevail
with an overwhelming majority. The
women all over the country, would,
with one voice, say no, no, the non
chewing gentry would cf coarse say
the same thing?while many who* in
dulge in the weed would vote the
same way.
A Brave Girl.
The Coving ton Star says that a
certain young lady not a thousand
miles from that place utilized her.
leap-year privileges and "popped .the
queslien" to her sweetheart a few
weeks ago und was accepted provided
the old folks were willing. They ob
jected however, when the girl with
commendable gallantry, stole the
young man away, eloped with him to
the resilience of the village parson
hard by, where they were "spliced"
in the holy bonds of wedlock in the
neatest possible manner. Now girls,
here is an example in leap year privi
leges which is at le:.si worthy of con
sideration Next.
How it Stood.
At the National Democratic Con
vention, held four jears ago at St.
Louis, there were seven candidates.
Tilden received 403 1-2 votes on tho
first ballot; it required 492 to nomi
nate. On the second ballot, Tilden
received 508 votes, and was declared
the nominee. Of the other candidates,
Hancock received 95 votes on the
first ballot, and GO on the last. Bay
ard had 38 votes on first ballot, but
declined to 11 on the second. Time
woiks wonderful changes and occa
sion illy it reverses figures.
While the lump holds out to burn
we suppose the most stalwart sinner
may return. The Bangor Wh g is
already inside the lines, having just
declared this is u constitutional gov
ernment ; that the constitution has in
itself all the strength required to pro
tect nud maintain our institutions ;
that the contest for the Presidency is
a civic one, and that we are now pre
paring for an appeal to the ballot-box -
and not lo civil war. But it is sad to
rcllect thai the Whig is only dealing
out this soothing syrup to the In'itd
term gudgeons in the interest of
Blaiue, and that in reality it lias as
linle regard for the constitution as it
has lor the average Maine mining
stock, provided the constitution inter
feres with a pet scheme of ihc Radi
cal leaders.?Boston Post {Dem.)
In some places rats have become a
great pest in farm houses and barns.
Copperas is the dread of* rals. In
every crevice or every hole where u
rat treads scatter the grains of co|?- .
perns, und the result is a stampede
of rats and mice. Kvcry Spring a
coat of yellow wash to the cellar* is
a purifier as well as a rat extermina
tor. To make a yellow wash add 1
pound copperas to each half bushel
of lime. Chickens are strengthened .
and cured of cholera, by dissolving a
small piece of copcras in their
drinking water. >
The National Republican League
of Philadelphia has issued an address
against Grant which concludes as
follows: "In view of the peril which
ihreutcns the nation, it becomes im
perative on all patriotic Republicans
lo declare Unequivocally that, if
driven to the alternative, they will,
even prefer a third candidate lo a
thiid term." What a pity liiere are
no names signed to that I